Under Construction - Work in Progress

I do not have much time to update this right now, I will do my best to update the interviews section with external interviews. Other stuff will be added over time. Expect me to be much more active at the second half ofNovember.

Official intro for new recruits to Star Citizen

From this update (note: updated links to match the new site)To our new backers, we would like to say welcome and thank you for lending your support. Your pledges are helping us making the game we've always wanted to play, and helping us go around the studio system to create a truly independent AAA title. For those of you who are new, here are some of the services you can expect from the website, with more planned for the upcoming relaunch!:

- Comm-Link: Daily posts about the game, from team interviews to concept art to design mechanics. There's always something new in the Comm-Link.- Spectrum Dispatch: Twice-weekly updates about Star Citizen's universe including ongoing short fiction designed to take you into our world before the game launches.- Wingman's Hangar: A weekly live show about Star Citizen's development that will introduce you to the team, update you on our progress and celebrate our fans! Our YouTube channel also features plenty of bonus content and longer videos.- Ask a Developer!: The RSI forums include a special section with a thread for every member of the Star Citizen team. Team members take time each week to answer the questions you post!- Live Chat: The Star Citizen live chat is hopping 24/7, and members of the development team stop by daily to chat about the game.

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Intro for new recruits to this guide

Under constructionAs you can see in the index some parts of this guide are missing, but some are working or are nearly finished, so use them. I really recommend videos and interviews if yo uwant to learn more about the game.

HANGAR MODULE

Reveal: 2013-08-24

Release: 2013-08-29

What are the minimum system requirements for the Hangar Module?

Windows Vista, Windows 7 or Windows 8DirectX 11 graphics card with 1GB Video RAMQuad core CPU8GB RAMKeep in mind that these are estimated system requirements and may change for the final release of the game.

$5.5 Million - MISSION ACHIEVED!◾ Professional motion capture for the Squadron 42 cutscenes. It’s the next best thing to Mark Hamill and a green screen!◾ Exclusive RECORD BREAKER ship skin and 1000 additional credits on launch for all backers.◾ Unlock the Bengal carrier as a playable ship in Star Citizen.

“To Infinity And Beyond…”$6 Million+ - MISSION ACHIEVED!◾ Star Citizen will improve on Privateer, with 100 star systems to explore on launch.◾ Bengal carrier unlocked for persistent universe play.◾ Full orchestral music for Star Citizen / Squadron 42 sound track ◾ The first Squadron 42 mission disk, Behind Enemy Lines, available for free to all backers upon release. A 16-mission campaign in the style of The Secret Missions.

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Additional Stretch Goals

All backers who pledge before June 28, 2013 will receive a Roberts Space Industries Class II space suit in their hangar.

ACCOMPLISHED100%10/06/2013$10,000,000$10,000,000

Cloud Imperium Games will build their own mocap studio to improve the quality of Star Citizen and Squadron 42’s cutscenes.

ACCOMPLISHED100%28/06/2013$11,000,000$11,000,000

Move Wingman out of the basement! Move CIG Austin to a larger facility that will support expanded development. More room for employees means more man hours spent developing the game.

ACCOMPLISHED100%02/07/2013$12,000,000$12,000,000

Build professional sound studios. We’ll move Star Citizen’s sound production from a home office to high tech facilities that will give us access to cutting edge sound effects and Hollywood voice talent! The Hangar Module will feature Oculus Rift support.

ACCOMPLISHED100%05/07/2013$13,000,000$13,000,000

Star Citizen will feature an additional ship class, the frigate. Command and Control Center – Supervise the battle from the deck of your Idris or Destroyer (class TBA) with advanced C&C packages that allow you to tie all of your ships together and assume central command from the 3rd seat.

ACCOMPLISHED100%07/07/2013$14,000,000$14,000,000

Hibernation Mode: for the explorers out there, we will add the ability to save and resume while you are out in space. When not in combat, power your ship down, hit the bunk, and exit the game safely until you can resume your journey. Professional-quality feature-length “Behind the Scenes of Star Citizen” documentary film. Star Citizen will feature a fourth landout option on Earth! Where will it be? London? Berlin?

ACCOMPLISHED100%01/08/2013$15,000,000$15,000,000

Star Citizen will feature an additional ship class, the escort carrier. Every backer will get a free digital 42-page Upgrade Handbook manual with their game which goes through the process of customizing and overclocking ship systems!

ACCOMPLISHED100%$16,000,000$16,000,000

Arena mode: The next generation of Wing Commander’s TrainSim allows pilots to test out their combat skills against friends or strangers in a simulation. Gain valuable combat experience without the downside of losing your ship in the game universe! Place bets on competitions across the galaxy. Every pledger who backs before $16 million will receive a laser pistol. Keep your ship safe from boarders with a pistol by your side.

ACCOMPLISHED100%CURRENT$16,432,124$17,000,000

Every pledger who backs before $17 million will receive a ship upgrade package containing an engine modifier. Star Citizen will feature an additional flyable ship class, the battlecruiser.

IN PROGRESS43%GOAL$18,000,000$18,000,000

Exclusive star system for pre-launch backers. Only players who support the game before its launch will receive the computer coordinates needed to allow their jump drives to access this system.

How to Reclaim

There have been many questions regarding upgrading existing pledge packages and how the process works so I would like to take some time to explain the process the best I can and consolidate some of the information.

This tutorial will take you through the steps needed to upgrade/change your existing pledge to a different one. Note that you will not lose any of your early backer bonuses by doing so as they are tied with your account and with you for ever!First you must be singed in to your RSI Account.

Once signed in go to MY RSI and select MY HANGAR.

Once in MY HANGAR scroll down under MY GEAR and you should see something like this.Find your pledge package on the list and click the small blue triangle on the right side to expand the package.

Once expanded your pledge package will look something like this.What you now want to do is click the button in the top right titled “Exchange for Store Credits” this is commonly referred to in the community as “Melting” and it will remove the pledge package from your account and give you credit for it equivalent to the amount that you paid for it.

Note: Melting a package does NOT remove any of your original/veteran backer bonuses so it is completely safe.

Technically you could re-buy the same package again with your store credit and be exactly where you started prior to melting (assuming that they still sell the package that you melted)

WARNING: What you will lose though is everything in the pledge package you are melting, the items are listed under ITEMS and ALSO CONTAINS (shown in the screenshot above) but not to worry, your new package will contain a similar set of items and probably more if you are upgrading to a higher pledge.

When you click the button to melt your pledge you will be presented with a confirmation dialogue.Once you are sure that you want to continue you are required to type your account password into the confirmation box to confirm, once done click RECLAIM

Exception: if the package you are trying to melt was purchased less that 24 hours ago you will have to wait for that timer to elapse before melting it.

Processing will take a second and you will get a confirmation message saying that the process was completed successfully.

You will now notice that the pledge package has now been removed from your account but all your other stuff remains including all of your original/veteran backer rewards.

You will also notice that in your MY RSI panel in the top right that you have been credited the amount of your former pledge in the form of store credits.Also observe that you’re Original/Veteran backer status remains unaffected.

Now navigate to the pledge store to acquire your new pledge.Click STORE on the navbar

Here's where is gets a little confusing as there a few different kinds of pledges, the one you most likely want is a game package which can all be viewed by clicking on the link under GAME PACKAGES on the far left, the specific option will be different for you depending on if you are a original/veteran/new backer, I am a veteran so my link says “Veteran Backers” for me.

Note on LTI: unless you are a Original or Veteran backer you will not be able to directly purchase any LTI (Lifetime Insurance) packages or ships, but as insurance is planned to be extremely cheap so hopefully this will be of little impact on you. However if you really want LTI you can have a friend (that you trust) and who is a veteran/original backer purchase the package for you and gift it to you.

Alternatively you can buy the package yourself and gift it to a trusted friend who then melts it and gets the store credits and subsequently re-buys the same pledge with LTI and gifts it back.

This works because there is no cost difference between LTI and non-LTI packages it's simply that LTI is no longer available to new backers and soon to be unavailable to everyone as of the 26 NOV 2013, LTI is also a property of the ship and will follow it through gifting.

There are 3 main types of pledge:

Game package: contains a ship, a copy of the game and all except for the digital scout contain alpha/beta access plus a load of other stuff (please see individual packages for specific contents)

Ship: contains the specified ship… that's it… nothing else, no game and no beta access, these are of little use unless you already have a game package with access to the game, you can gift them but again they will be of no use unless the recipient has a package that includes access to the game.

Add-On: These are mostly small items like skins, digital books and hanger upgrades (hangar upgrade you can get for free if one of your ships requires at least that hangar size) some things here do not require access to the game, the digital books for example, but the skins and hangars will require a copy of the game to be of any use.

So this time we are pledging for a game package as we need to replace the game access and alpha/beta access we lost when melting my existing package in my case I'm upgrading to the arbiter – LTI package which will grant me a 325A to replace my 300i that was melted to store credits.

So select your package and verify that it has everything that you want.Select Add To Cart.

Then select CHECKOUT.

Fill out your customer info if you haven’t already (it should be pre-populated)

You will notice that you are presented with the full price of the package but you don't need to pay the full amount as you have store credit, click on Credits & Coupons button and you will be prompted to choose how much of your credit you would like to use.

In this case I am going to put all of my credit towards my new package so I enter 65 in the use credit box and click APPLY.

You can see that you will only be billed the difference between your new pledge and your applied creditSelect your preferred payment method and click PLACE ORDER to continue

Once you have made your payment you should get a confirmation.

That’s it your done.

We can see that the store credits have been spent.

And the new game package has been added to the top of the list in MY HANGAR with all of its goodies.

I hope this tutorial will be of use to a few people and with any luck will lead to less concern about upgrading a pledge.

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Official Terminology

CIG(C) - Cloud Imperium Games Corporation - Company creating the gameCitizen cards - Citizen Cards are physical props to prove that you have supported Star Citizen and will be one of the first pilots in space when the testing process starts. They will be wallet sized cards that you can carry with you anywhere you go. Citizen cards will also appear in the game itself, showing your character’s social standing, credit account and so on.Golden Ticket - Everyone who registered before 10/10/10 (10th October 2012 10 am) have one. Those people will get gold decals for their shipRSI - Roberts Space Industries - Fictional company creating spaceships in Star Citizen (Aurora, Constellation Mk3, Idris Class Corvette)Squadron 42 - Singleplayer campaignStar Citizen - The whole game (or multiplayer side only?)WingMan’s Hangar - regular friday live show featuring WingMan, previously known as WingMan's NutsWingMan's Hangover - (Unoffficial) aftershow taking place in the chat and in the WingMan's stream shortly after WingMan's HangarPrivate server - Everyone can have their server where he can mod the game.Persistent Universe (PU) - Official multiplayer part of the gameConcierge - Extra services for those who pledged over $1K, $5K and $10K